Karl von Buchka (chemist)

Karl von Buchka, 1907, photo by Rudolf Dührkoop

Karl von Buchka , also Carl von Buchka (born May 7, 1856 in Rostock , † February 16, 1917 in Basel ) was a German chemist, university professor and real secret councilor.

Life

Karl von Buchka was a son of the lawyer and later Minister of State in the Ministry of Justice of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Hermann von Buchka , who was raised to the hereditary Mecklenburg nobility in 1891, and his wife Elisabeth, née. von Stein (1829-1884). Gerhard von Buchka was his brother.

He attended the Gymnasium Fridericianum Schwerin and, at the age of 16, went to the University of Göttingen in 1872 to study natural sciences and mathematics. In 1873 he became a member of the Corps Bremensia . After a semester at the University of Greifswald as a member of the Corps Pomerania Greifswald in 1873/74, he returned to Göttingen, where he was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. received his doctorate. From 1877 to 1881 he researched and worked in Munich in the laboratory of the Academy of Sciences under the direction of Adolf von Baeyer . Then he was assistant in the chemical laboratory of the University of Göttingen with Hans Huebner and after his death in 1884 with Victor Meyer , at the same time he became a private lecturer . From 1891 to 1895 he was an associate professor in Göttingen.

In 1896 Karl von Buchka moved to Berlin, where he remained active as a Reichsbeamter until the end of his life. He was initially a councilor and member of the Imperial Patent Office . As early as 1897 he was appointed to the Imperial Health Department, where he took over the management of the scientific testing department. In 1900 he was appointed a member of the Reich Health Council.

From 1896 he was also a private lecturer at the University of Berlin , from 1897 lecturer in food chemistry at the Technical University of Charlottenburg and later also a permanent member of the college for chemistry and metallurgy. As a lecturer for food chemistry, he was also a permanent member of the commission for the main examination of food chemists for Berlin.

In 1902 he was appointed as a secret government councilor and lecturer in the Reich Treasury with the task of establishing the technical examination center there. In 1906 he was promoted to the Secret Upper Government Council. After the examination office was separated from the Reich Treasury, he was appointed to the executive board of the Imperial Technical Examination Office, which was then set up as a special authority, in 1908 .

On his 60th birthday in 1916, he was given the character of a Real Secret Upper Government Councilor with the rank of Councilor 1st Class.

v. Buchka (far right) as a member of the General Committee of the Association of Old Corps Students

From 1895 to 1905, Buchka was an honorary member of the full committee of the Association of Old Corps Students and its treasurer.

Buchka suddenly died of a weak heart while on a business trip to Switzerland .

He was married to Adelheid, geb. from Plato . The couple had a son, Karl , and a daughter.

Awards

• 1904 Red Eagle Order 4th class
• 1907 Order of the Red Eagle 3rd class with the ribbon

Fonts (selection)

• About some nitro derivatives of acetophenone and about phenoxylic acid . Göttingen 1877 (diss.)
• Analytical chemistry textbook. Leipzig [u. a.]: Deuticke 1891/92

Digitized volume 1 , University and State Library Düsseldorf

Digitized volume 2 , University and State Library Düsseldorf

• The food legislation in the German Empire: a collection of the laws and most important ordinances relating to the trade in food, luxury items and commodities, together with the official instructions for chemical analysis of the same . Berlin: Springer 1901

Digitized , University and State Library Düsseldorf

2nd edition Berlin: Springer 1912

• Festschrift for the fiftieth anniversary of the Kösener SC Association . (Berlin), (1905)
• The Food Industry: A Handbook for Food Chemists .

Vol. 1, Leipzig: Academ. Verl.-Ges. 1914

Vol. 2, Leipzig: Academ. Verl.-Ges. 1916

Vol. 3, Leipzig: Academ. Verl.-Ges. 1918

• Food industry . Berlin: Gobbing 1914

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 39 , 794.
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 53 , 466.
3. ↑ Karl von Buchka at corpsarchive.de with reference to Academische Monatshefte 23 (1906/07), p. 149.
4. ^ Obituary (lit.).

literature

• Karl von Buchka † . In: "Zeitschrift für angewandte Chemie" 30 (1917), pp. 101f

Web links

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